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The author of Black Tie and Tales and Black in the Saddle Again, both winners of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor, returns with a new collection guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and make you scratch your head at the absurdities of life in the early years of the new millennium. In slyly ironic, pointedly witty essays, Black takes aim at the vagaries of the English language, the moribund political correctness movement, and a host of rural and urban eccentrics.

In this book of the Heller series, smooth talking Cory Teale charms his way into the confidence of the Ute Indian tribe. He even secures a power of attorney and the responsibility for investing the tribe's money. Heller's friend, who previously handled the tribe's investments, determines Teale is too good to be true and grows suspicious. Heller is asked to check the guy out. Assuming it would be a simple investigation, Heller finds more than he expects and gets himself and his girlfriend marked for death....

Popular demand for the Heller series has prompted the author to bring out the eight book, the final encore of Carl Heller. In this book, Carl Heller goes undercover as a big time investor in the Snow King Ski Resort. The Snow King is the brain child of Harold King a polished and elusive con man. Heller is called into the case by Kat Sullivan, the girlfriend of a missing salesman hired to sell memberships in the Snow King Resort. Heller learns the resort's terrible secret and nearly loses his life in a desperate gunfight in the mountain snow.

They were young, not so innocent, but certainly unprepared for being "turned out" into the sleazy hell of a no-limits porno playground in Reno. There, tender flesh commanded the highest buck, but a young life was cheap. When a "clean" brothel owner hired Heller to wipe out those preying on the unsuspecting under-age, Heller willingly sunk himself into the dark, slimy underground. Whores, drugs, blood-soaked profits, the whole girl-trade pipeline made Heller sick. Trying to shut it down could get him snuffed.

Heller was just a big boy from the high country and he was having a rough time understanding all the fuss over protecting the secret development of a hot, new video game. Heller soon learned it wasn't a fun game, it was deadly trouble. The game could pay off in a fabulous fortune for G&C Electronics in Colorado Springs high-tech gulch and somebody was racing to steal the program. They were willing to destroy the company and anyone who got in their way. It was Heller's job to turn the tables and do some destroying.

Somebody was stealing the most precious survival resource in the dry grass country: water. These were no ordinary thieves, however: these rain rustlers were taking the water right out of the skies with a secret cloud seeding operation that threatened to wipe out everybody in the San Luis Valley. At first Heller thought it was all a joke, until a club-wielding pachuco ambushed him, reduced his bike to scrap and left him bruised and bleeding. Heller comes back with a Smith and Wesson and a loving lady pilot....

When Ian and Nancy Lanigan purchased an old but well-maintained house deep in the Pennsylvania woods, they were sure they found their dream home. The sellers warned them it was haunted, but they only laughed. Later, they were to find out the entire woods were haunted. But still, the property was valuable, so valuable that developers were willing to kill to get it. The Lanigan's reeled under the assault against them. The help they needed came from an unusual and unreal source, the haunted woods.

This wonderful 1980 horse racing classic never loses its luster or charm. Author Bill Barich explores the day-to-day internal world of horse racing - from the backside to the backstretch. This entertaining story of the lives and tribulations of various racetrack personalities is sure to extract every human emotion. The author's summer adventure after a family tragedy finds him living the life many diehard racing enthusiasts wish they could.

Meeting ex-FBI agent Jack Davis in the middle of a shootout is the best thing that could have happened to Vivien Chase. But Jack has no idea how deep - and how deadly - his involvement with the mysterious young bookkeeper will get. The pretty accountant may be able to pull a trigger as well as she manipulates a spreadsheet, but her talents may add up to zero if a killer gets their way. As Jack follows Vivien into a lethal web of deceit, years in the making, the only thing that might save them - time - is running out...

Dr. Roger Fritz is considered one of the country’s foremost authorities on Performance Based Management and change requirements for individuals. In Magnet Poeple, Dr. Fritz shows what it takes to become a magnetic, charismatic, and successful personality, exuding confidence, and affluence. Organizations from Fortune 500 companies to family-owned businesses have used his advice. Dr. Fritz has served over 350 clients and takes out time from his schedule, each month for presentations.

In 1987 Jim Moroney had an extraterrestrial encounter at a small truck stop just outside Manitoba, Canada. It changed his life forever. He spent the next 20 years studying the phenomenon of extraterrestrials. His book will provide answers to all your questions about visitors from other planets.

The third Owen Allison mystery, following Contrary Blues and Highway Robbery, finds the transportation inspector defending his Aunt Lizzie against a murder charge. With her land threatened by the construction of a shopping mall, Lizzie parks herself at the edge of her property, shotgun in her lap, vowing to do whatever it takes to stop the dump trucks; then, suddenly, a truck driver is dead. Did Aunt Lizzie really shoot him? Owen smells a rat, but Lizzie seems determined to refuse his help.

After having returned from captivity, Martha Hazlett agrees to marry Jacob Fite. Jacob and Martha leave Jamestown and sail for England so Martha can confront the aunt and uncle who mistreated her, and claim the inheritance her dead parents left. While in England, they stumble into a case of political intrigue that reflects on them badly. They flee England and sail for the West Indies where Martha kills a French Pirate captain who tried to seduce her. They escape from Jamaica bound for Jamestown, but soon find themselves shipwrecked with a band of pirates....

At a remote site in Minnesota, filmmaker Kurt Carpenter has built a secure compound and invited a select group of people to bunker down until the worst is over. The world into which they re-emerge is like nothing they've ever seen. At first they think they're the only ones left. But they soon find out how wrong they are. In the wasteland of what used to be America, their battle to survive is only just beginning.

In The Truth About Obamacare, Sally C. Pipes - president of the Pacific Research Institute and an acknowledged expert on health care reform - reveals what Democrats in Congress and President Barack Obama don't want you to know: Obamacare is even worse than most critics suspect. Debunking the myths that the current administration has touted, Pipes shows exactly what the new health care law will mean for you, your family, your doctor, and your wallet.

Suddenly, Oregon is under attack. Six hundred acres of land are burned to the ground. An entire lake is poisoned, killing all the fish and surrounding wildlife. A clue is left that the destruction of the dams will be the next and final blow. The same person is claiming credit for all the disasters. But who is he and why is he out to destroy the entire state?

Listening to "any chapter in this book will increase self confidence. It reconfirms the reasons we continue to use Roger's ideas and books in our ongoing training and development programs." (Brooke Runnels, Training and Employee Communication Manager, The Biltmore Company)

Charlie Buchanan, a young rancher in central Idaho, sets out to kill the newly introduced pack of wolves as his anti-government statement. The result is high adventure and endless misery for man and beast.

Five senior citizens are dead. They were conned out of their life's savings on phony land deals and made trouble complaining. The mob is also distributing wholesale weaponry, ammunition, and drugs to any thief or psycho with money. Tony Rossi of La Costra Nostra asks his old friend, Mark Hardin, to smash the Florida operation. And Mark is forced to help the Mafia against their non-Sicilian opponents because of their threat to innocent people....

Frozen assets: Preacher Mann is too much for the FBI and the CIA. He has dual citizenship and friends in diplomatic circles and he's too powerful for the regular legal channels. He's come a long way: from a pimp in Harlem he's worked his way to the top – of the rackets. He's into international dope, espionage – and now, in his orgy palace off the Florida coast he's onto a new wrinkle!